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Ellinair To Launch Flight From Pulkovo To Kavala And Alitalia To Katania In Summer 2017

20.01.2017

St. Petersburg Pulkovo airport continues adding new routes to its network. Greece’s Ellinair airlines launches St. Petersburg — Kavala flight, Italy’s Alitalia — between St. Petersburg and Katania. The Pulkovo press service said in a statement that the airlines would start operating on these routes in the summer. For example,...

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Russians Are Getting Through Shocking Custom On Epiphany Day

19.01.2017

In January 19, Orthodox Christians are celebrating the Epiphany day and traditionally cut platforms in the rivers’ ice for consecration of water in which they get in to repeat what Jesus Christ did thousands of years ago to be baptized in the Jordan river. In St. Petersburg, more than twenty cross-shaped platforms are organized under supervision...

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holidays , mentality , Orthodox , religion

Vyborg Castle To Launch Foxtrails

18.01.2017

The Vyborg castle museum launches a new product to get you deep into the Middle Ages. This will require a proactive approach from you as it is something like the Code da Vinchi adventure consisting of nine stages which you must get through. The name of the product is «The mysterious castle». It consists of nine stages served by 10 museum...

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day trip , Leningrad region , Vyborg

Anecdote: Police Mistakenly Arrested Actress During Street Performance

15.01.2017

The St. Petersburg policemen believed that a woman was going to jump from nearly five meters high in the city center to make a suicide in front of several dozens of spectators and were very fast to save her and took to a police station. To their surprise, the woman didn’t need to be saved at all as her acting was part of a street theatrical show....

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art , police , Russian life , theater

New Compensation Rules For Sapsan And Allegro Delays Are Set

15.01.2017

The Russian Railways (RZD) have changed compensation schemes for delays and some other mishaps of the Sapsan and Allegro trains. From now on, passengers are compensated on a basis of duration of delays in case the delay is attributable to the RZD or VR. 1. For any delay of 60-119 minutes, the passenger is entitled to receive compensation of 25% of...

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Allegro , Finland , Helsinki , money , Moscow , Sapsan , trains

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